Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs)

IPR

Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) are legal rights that protect creations and/or inventions resulting from intellectual activity in the industrial, scientific, literary or artistic fields. The most common IPRs include patents, copyrights, marks and trade secrets.

Many issues arise when a study group decides that it is technically prudent to incorporate an entity’s intellectual property in the text of an ITU-T Recommendation; the issues vary according to the nature of the intellectual property.

Alternatively, the ITU Software Copyright Guidelines provide guidance to a study group in its consideration of the incorporation of material protected by copyright law in Recommendations of ITU-R and ITU-T. ITU-T Guidelines related to the inclusion of Marks in ITU-T Recommendations provide guidance to ITU-T study groups in their consideration of the use of trademarks, service marks and certification marks in ITU-T Recommendations and on actions to be taken should a study group decide to reference any such marks.